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...letter-writing and phone-in campaigns, and kept in touch with each other to exchange information and plot tactics. The radio campaign was widely credited with helping scuttle the pay increase. Now several of these hosts are leading the protests against Exxon's slow cleanup of the Alaska oil spill, collecting cut-up Exxon credit cards and advocating a company boycott. More such crusades may be in the offing. Williams, of Boston's WRKO-AM, has invited his fellow talk hosts to a convention in June. The aim, he says, is to "see what we have in common...
Dennis Kelso, commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation, told a congressional panel the spill has caused "550 miles of oil, filthy foam and tar balls...
...perhaps not so much as puzzling out the future and proving that everybody else has it wrong. Charles Githler, who is sponsoring this money show, captures the visceral quality of the obsession (though with a blithe disregard for mixed metaphors) when he introduces the editors: "They'll really spill their guts. They'll put their necks on the line, and then let you fire back with your questions...
...month after the Exxon Valdez disgorged 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound, the effort to combat the worst such spill in U.S. history assumed the tempo of a military operation. By last week Exxon alone had mobilized 460 vessels, 26 aircraft and the first 2,850 members of what is expected to be a 4,000-person cleanup brigade. Said a company executive: "We could invade a small country with what we have deployed here...
...month after the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the drive to repair the damage has a long way to go. Fortunately, Mother Nature herself is lending a hand...